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Precinct Caucuses- March 21, 2006

At our precinct caucuses on March 21st, we’ll have the opportunity to submit our ideas for our Democratic Party Platform. These are my suggestions. Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

1. Be it resolved that, given the close ties between those elected officials who make policy and the beneficiaries of those policies, our military efforts shall immediately be de-Haliburtonized, that our soldiers shall resume those tasks that they have traditionally been trained to do and that these tasks shall be removed from the control of private corporations to which they have recently been outsourced.

2. Be it resolved that, given the close ties between those elected officials who make policy and the beneficiaries of those policies, our efforts supporting the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq shall immediately be de-Haliburtonized, and that contracts supporting the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq shall be awarded to local established corporations with established long-term residency in each separate country being restored, that an international body be created to oversee the contract issuance and work progress governed therby, and that our Armed Forces shall be repatriated as expeditiously as possible.

3. Be it resolved that the United States of America should join and support the World Criminal Court.

4. Be it resolved that all Digital Recorder Equipment used for voting in any public election must, as a minimum, produce a voter-verifiable record, meet all NIST requirements for data encryption and security, and that it be independently auditable with respect to source code, reliability, and vote integrity.

5. Be it resolved that, given the demonstrated rampant corruption of some elected officials, any official accepting a gift of value of more than $100 from a person or institution intending to affect legislation or policy shall be stripped of his or her citizenship, deprived of property, flogged naked though the streets, and sent into exile.

6. Be it resolved that any Democrat, elected to office, who supports or defends torture or lends support to those who defend the use of torture, is no Democrat. Let him be anathematized.

7. Be it resolved that any person, elected to office, who supports the enlargement of government authority at the expense of the Civil liberties outlined by the Bill of Rights, is no Patriot. Let him be cast into the outer darkness.

8. Be it resolved that, given that the surveillance of American citizens without independent oversight is unconstitutional, a Special Prosecutor shall be appointed to investigate and prosecute anyone found to have authorized such.

9. Be it resolved that individuals, without regard to citizenship or location, who under the control and authority of the United States of America shall also enjoy the Civil Liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

10. Be it resolved that Americans are responsible for their own security and that it is irresponsible and traitorous to sell that duty to corporations of other nations.

11. Be it resolved that same-sex marriage and flag desecration will not bring our nation to ruin faster than irresponsible fiscal policies, war-mongering, and a growing disparity between the desperate working poor and the influential self-serving ultra-rich. The former are red-herring issues meant to distract from the real and serious later problems. Only fools fight in a burning house.

Good Question

Overheard on Air America this morning: Why was the FCC fine for Janet Jacksons' Breast slip more than the fine for the owners of the Sago Mine where 12 of our citizens recently died?

Lie, lie, then lie some more. Lie to the press, lie to the states, lie to the people, lie to the investigators. And never admit a lie or failure.

Here it is. (video of Bush being briefed about Katrina so that he would absolutely "know" that the "big one" - in Michael Brown's words - was coming.)

Maybe Bush didn't listen to Brownie cuz he knew Brown was a partisan hack who had no business running FEMA. Problem is: Bush is that x 10 wrt our Federal Government.

Worst.President.Ever.

More Proof of More Lies and More Incompetence

The first memo circulated among the Bush Administration regarding the threat of Al Qaeda and their impending terror activities has been declassified.

Surprise surprise surprise, Gomer! President Bush ignored the terrorism issue cuz that evil Bill Clinton told him he would have to address it. As we all know, Bush didn't want anything to do with Clinton's policies and issues. How petty, how immature, how ignorant, how incompetent can one person be?

Boy, could Bush use some of those millions of jobs, some of those tax receipts, some of that peace and prosperity that Bill Clinton ushered in.

We also learn that Richard Clarke told the truth. Obviously. And Condi Rice lied. Maliciously.

From the site: The January 25, 2001, memo, recently released to the National Security Archive by the National Security Council, bears a declassification stamp of April 7, 2004, one day prior to Rice's testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004. Responding to claims that she ignored the al-Qaeda threat before September 11, Rice stated in a March 22, 2004 Washington Post op-ed, "No al Qaeda plan was turned over to the new administration."

Guess what? Here's the plan (pdf warning).

Here's a snippet from the 9/11 Commission hearings:

Richard CLARKE: Well, all of the things that we recommended in the plan or strategy -- there's a lot of debate about whether it's a plan or a strategy or a series of options -- but all of the things we recommended back in January were those things on the table in September. They were done. They were done after September 11th. They were all done. I didn't really understand why they couldn't have been done in February.

As if we needed more proof. Of course Condi will say it wasn't a plan. And they derided Clinton over the meaning of "is". But it was something. More than the nothing the Bush Administration did prior to 9/11. As if there was any last shred of doubt.

How can Republicans, and this President, be considered tough on terror and better on national security than Democrats? The people are waking up. If they had all the truth contained in these documents, this long national nightmare would be over. Right now.

$20,000 and counting

By the way, in the current Harper’s the estimated cost of this horrific war to each American taxpayer is just under $20,000.

conservative......responsible........resolute.......visionary........

Bush Civil War - Bush Accountability

Colin Powell said "you break it, you own it."

Some guy on Fox last week said "if you have to ask if it's a 'civil war', it's a civil war."

Cheney said the insurgents were in their "last throes." Over 600 Americans have been killed in Iraq since then.

Bush said the Iraqis need to make a decision now on how to escape this death spiral that George Bush put their country in.

He'll never take responsibility. He'll never be held accountable. Will the Republicans support him 'til the bitter end?

(Image stolen from TalkLeft - Z) Photo removed by TalkLeft's request. Hey, at least we got noticed! - Z

50 Governors Agree: Bush Hurting GUARD

Wow, this is truly believable: President Bush's policies are hurting the National Guard.

All 50 Governors of the States agree:

• Governor Kempthorne of Idaho said the National Guard was bearing "a totally disproportionate share" of proposed cuts in the growth of the Army's budget over the next five years, even as the Guard's responsibilities at home were increasing.
• Governor Huckaby of Arkansas said: "We are concerned [...] when our troops are deployed for long periods of time, and their equipment goes with them but does not come back."
• Governor Blanco of Louisiana said: "The Guard played an awesome role. We should be increasing the number of National Guard combat brigades, not reducing it."
• Governor Sebelius of Kansas said: "We are not only missing National Guard personnel, we are also missing a lot of the equipment that's used to deal with situations at home, day in and day out."

There you have it. And let me be the first to ask: Why do the 50 Governors of the states, 22 Democrats and 28 Republicans, hate America? How did these 50 traitors get elected by their ignorant voters to lead these 50 United States of America? Is George Bush going to have to dissolve the state governments and install political appointees to run these backwater institutions?

Irony is making the longest and most over-acted spetacle of a death since Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing.